The fortifications were the largest and strongest ever built in either the ancient or medieval worlds. By...
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The Varangians were probably as shocking a sight to Byzantine enemies as tanks would have been to...
An introduction and prologue for the first campaigns against Sicily and the relations between both Sicily and...
Well-worn routes resulted along which regular stopping points allowed pilgrims to sleep, eat, and be cared for...
The Byzantine Empire, is one of the most tragically understudied topics in modern American historical curriculum. By...
The journey begins with a quiet academic living in Istanbul who receives a cryptic message that will...
The name Byzantine Empire is a modern term and would have been alien to its contemporaries, who...
The types of Christianity they professed had important differences that led to a lack of recognition and...
Examining the influence of family, religion, schooling, class, status, experiences, and social contacts upon the psychological development...
Although they were the minority, some women did manage to rise above the limitations imposed on them...
The weapon ceased to exist by the time the Ottoman Empire finally conquered Constantinople in 1453. September...
The napalm of ancient warfare. By Mark CartwrightHistor Introduction Greek Fire was an incendiary weapon first used in Byzantine...
The reign of Justinian was an extremely significant period. It marked the final end of the Roman...
Peter the Hermit Preaching the First Crusade – From the Painting by James Archer / Wikimedia Commons...
Examining the view that the Orthodox Church stifled the development of East Slavic intellectual thought. By Dr....
Desecrated Christian icons in Turkey / Photo by Georges Jansoone JoJan, Göreme Valley Open Air Museum, Cappadocia,...
Procopius of Caesarea, Creative Commons It has been a subject of much debate what Procopius actually thought...
“She Who Points the Way.” Wall Fragment with the Virgin Mary and Coats of Arms, mid-1400s, made...
Statue of Constantine the Great in Yorkminster / Creative Commons Even had its Empire never existed, Byzantium...
Music has played a central role in Greek Orthodox services for centuries. Nicolas Bell describes the manuscript...
Byzantine Constantinople (modern Istanbul), c.1000 CE / Wikimedia Commons Surveying the many written sources for Byzantine history. By...
Sammelband of three books, edge shown with clasps / Science History Institute, Wikimedia Commons Ann Tomalak provides...
Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary / Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wikimedia Commons The transition from parchment to paper as...
From Lucian of Samosata by Nicolas Perrot d’Ablancourt, 1697 Byzantine manuscripts were created by and for educated men both...
Seventh ecumenical council, Icon, 17th century, Novodevichy Convent, Moscow / Photo by shakko, Wikimedia Commons Byzantine scribes...
A 12-13th century CE illustrated manuscript depicting the 11th century CE Byzantine scholar and minister Michael Psellos and Byzantine emperor Michael...
Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George, sixth or early seventh century, encaustic on wood,...
Hagia Sophia / Photo by Arild Vågen, Wikimedia Commons It wasn’t Europe that gave us our idea of...
Painting by Laurits Tuxen showing a Christian Bishop displacing an image of the pagan Slavic deities during...
Portrait of Alexios III Komnenos in The Romance of Alexander the Great, 1300s, made in Trebizond, Turkey. Tempera, gold,...